President Barack Obama said Americans “deserve a final vote on health reform” and called on leaders of the U.S. House and Senate to schedule a vote on his latest proposal “in the next few weeks.”

While President Barack Obama plans to include Republican ideas into a comprehensive health care reform plan he wants approved by Congress, not everyone is ready to jump on board.

This week will mark the one-year anniversary of the Obama Administration’s start to reform America’s health care system, and while Democrats are urging a resolution, Republican continue to see a long road ahead.

The public option –long debated and absent from President Barack Obama’s health reform plan – appears to no longer be an option.

IFAwebnews.com will be posting updates and observations throughout the President’s Health Summit, where President Obama and key members of Congress, both Democratic and Republican, are supposed to hammer out a plan for comprehensive federal health care reform.